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227 Who Teaches Us Most About Financial Programing in Africa Ann Cotton 241 Hope or Hype Five Obstacles to Mobile Money Innovations for Youth Financial Services Jamie M. Zimmerman and Julia Arnold 255 Future Forward: Innovations for Youth Employment in Africa Beverly Schwartz and Deepali Khanna 267 Young People, Agriculture, and Transformation in Rural Africa: An “Opportunity Space” Approach James Sumberg and Christine Okali 279 Offering Digital Financial Services to Promote Financial Inclusion: Lessons We’ve Learned John Owens About Innovations Innovations is about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. The journal features cases authored by exceptional innovators; commentary and research from leading academics; and essays from globally recognized executives and political leaders. The journal is jointly hosted at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. Topics of interest include entrepreneurship and global development, the revolution in mobile communications, global public health, water and sanitation, and energy and climate. Authors published in Innovations to date include three former and one current head of state (including U.S. Presidents Carter and Clinton); a Nobel Laureate in Economics; founders and executive directors of some of the world’s leading companies, venture capital firms, and foundations; and MacArthur Fellows, Skoll awardees, and Ashoka Fellows. Recently the journal has published special editions in collaboration with the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ashoka, the Lemelson Foundation, and Social Capital Markets. Subscribe at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/innovations
Making Cents International and Citi Foundation Introduction to the Special Issue This youth-focused double issue is the product of a shared passion to improve livelihoods and economic opportunities among the world’s 1.8 billion youth. The publication is particularly timely given the increased focus being given to programming, funding, and research on the contributions of young people in a time of economic volatility. As the economy shows signs of recovery, the International Labor Organization reports that the global rate of youth unemployment hovers around 13%, just below the jobless rate at the peak of the crisis—this still represents an estimated 73 million young people. Despite staggering unemployment, our concern is not the scale of the problem. Instead, we are encouraged by the scale of the opportunity before us. With the support and collaboration of the Citi Foundation, Making Cents International will leverage this Innovations issue as well as the annual conference, funder meetings, “Apply It!” webinars, blogs, crowd-sourced solution events, and other tools to engage a global network of partners to galvanize dialog, collaboration, and knowledge-building toward a collective global agenda for youth. Through its Collaborative Learning and Action Institute (Co-Lab), Making Cents will promote and improve economic opportunities for youth around the world. This year, the Co-Lab aims to strengthen knowledge management in the field, enhancing the scope and depth, diversity, and quality of how and what our people learn. Co-Lab gives our stakeholders and partners a new platform to both add value and benefit from knowledge management that translates ideas into solutions. The following collection of analyses, research, and remarkable stories is a part of our new vision. In searching for authors, we weren’t searching for all the answers. We looked across diverse sectors for authors who could connect disparate concepts, innovations, theories, stories, or research results that move the youth economic opportunities agenda forward. To highlight a few authors, first and foremost, we hear the voices of young people describing the hard work, ambition, fortitude, and support needed from others to bring innovations to old problems. Arnest Sebbumba, a young farmer, takes us into rural Africa and reveals the choices, challenges and opportunities facing agricultural entrepreneurs in Uganda. Social entrepreneur and Founder of Souktel, Jacob Korenblum, shares the thrills and spills of navigating entrepreneurship and identifying new opportunities in conflict-environments. © 2013 Making Cents International and Citi Foundation innovations / 2013 Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference 5
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